Review: Even the Least of These

You know that poetry is working when it pulls up memories and contexts from your own life, things the poet can't possibly know but somehow elicited with 10-line poems on, for example, friends, popsicles, bird nests on porch lights, bats, drunk chickadees, noisy woodpeckers, and painfully finishing the last puzzle or caring for figurines left behind by beloved late relatives. This book juxtaposes the poems with art prints from the poet's best friend, and was created during pandemic lockdown as the two women began noticing small but important observations in their own lives and surroundings. Worth multiple readings. Highly recommended.